DIVERSE PLACES

Question 1

Acesssibility

Answer 1

How easy it is to travel to a place or interact with an individual.

Question 2

Administrative Centre

Answer 2

Places that make decisions about how to organise infrastructure and economic activity for the surrounding areas.

Question 3

Amenity Value

Answer 3

The value of a resource to locals and businesses (beaches, timber, coal).

Question 4

Built Environment

Answer 4

The buildings and infrastructure within an urban area.

Question 5

Capital

Answer 5

Productive assets, goods or financial stakes.

Question 6

Central Business District

Answer 6

The centre of a city, containing a high density of
businesses and TNC headquarters.

Question 7

Commuter

Answer 7

An individual who regularly travels a distance between their residence and their employment.

Question 8

Cultural Enrichment

Answer 8

The addition of ideas, traditions and beliefs due to the arrival of new people.

Question 9

Cultural Erosion

Answer 9

The loss of a culture, resulting in a change in ideas or disregard for traditions.

Question 10

Culture

Answer 10

The way of life of a particular group of people at a particular time, generally customs and beliefs.

Question 11

Demographic

Answer 11

The characteristics of a population.

Question 12

Deprivation

Answer 12

Individuals lack basic services or objects they would expect to have in the 21st Century.

Question 13

Dereliction

Answer 13

The loss of industry or productivity of a land, leaving it abandoned.

Question 14

Diversification

Answer 14

Where a company may look to offer different services or sell a wider range of products to appeal to a new target audience.

Question 15

Diversity

Answer 15

Variation within a population, in their characteristics, background and behaviour.

Question 16

Elite Migrants

Answer 16

Migration due to an individual’s wealth or status, often investing in the host country through investment visas, property or business.

Question 17

Empty Nester

Answer 17

A couple whose children have moved out (post-university age).

Question 18

nvironmental Impact Assessment

Answer 18

The study of environmental impacts caused by large
business projects.

Question 19

Ethnicity

Answer 19

The cultural background of a group of people, often based on religion or country of origin.

Question 20

Exponential Growth

Answer 20

An ever more rapid increase in something. For example, the world’s population is growing exponentially.

Question 21

Fertility Rate

Answer 21

The number of children born per 1000 women each year.

Question 22

Gated Communities

Answer 22

Urban neighbourhoods surrounded by gates often to improve
privacy and safety. They can add to segregation within a community.

Question 23

Gentrification

Answer 23

Renovation of older/deteriorating buildings or areas with the aim of attracting high-income individuals or elite businesses to a place.

Question 24

Governance

Answer 24

The management of a place or group of people.

Question 25

Idyll

Answer 25

A location with ideal living conditions and good qualities. Often based on a perception.

Question 26

Inequality

Answer 26

Differences in income, well-being and wealth between individuals, communities and society.

Question 27

Internal Migraion

Answer 27

The movement of people within a country.

Question 28

International Migration

Answer 28

The movement of people from one country to another.

Question 29

Life-Cycle Stage

Answer 29

The change in opinions and values at different stages of an individual’s life.

Question 30

Life Expectancy

Answer 30

The average number of years an individual is likely to live, determined at birth.

Question 31

Lived Experience

Answer 31

The contribution of experiences and opportunities to an individual’s views and values.

Question 32

Media

Answer 32

The publishing of information and production of entertainment (e.g. BBC, local newspapers, radio stations).

Question 33

Mortality Rate

Answer 33

The number of deaths per thousand people.

Question 34

Multicultural

Answer 34

The existence, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single geographic area.

Question 35

Perception

Answer 35

A person’s view of a place or issue based on feelings, experience and outside forces such as the media.

Question 36

Political Engagement

Answer 36

The willingness and ability of an individual to vote or join political parties or pressure groups.

Question 37

Population Density

Answer 37

The number of people per square kilometre

Question 38

Rebranding

Answer 38

Creating a new look or reputation for an area

Question 39

Regional Disparity

Answer 39

The economic (or cultural) gap between different parts of a country

Question 40

Rural-urban Contiuum

Answer 40

A range of living spaces running from remotest peripheral rural villages to the CBD of the city.

Question 41

Sink Estates

Answer 41

Council estates that score badly on the Index of Multiple Deprivation..

Question 42

Stakeholder

Answer 42

An individual with interest and influence within their community (residents, local businesses, farmers, NGOs).

Question 43

Social Clustering

Answer 43

Groups of people with similar background frequently living together.

Question 44

Social Exclusion

Answer 44

The inability of a group of people to become involved in the cultural activities of a place.

Question 45

Urbanisation

Answer 45

An increase in the proportion of a population living within urban areas.